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12 April 2022

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Template 1 for cone

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Template 2 for cone

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20 April 2022

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Had a go in my own time, very satisfying to build the cone! Looking forward to the next activity (won't be able to come to the workshop sorry)

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I dream of making an undulating shape that goes out and then in and then out again (forever!?). This is two cone templates glued together at their ends. 

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For the one at the front,  using the same template, slightly extended to make the cone taller, I cut the strips in two to the halfway point, making them thinner, so that I could do a lot more weaving. Hilary.

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Two cylinder experiments, check weave and twill. Angles of strands set at 45 degrees

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Template for 45 degree strand cylinder

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Following on from weaving skew cubes and skew tubes, I've been experimenting with skew cylinders. By working with the skew (7,3), I first set up a cylinder to weave both sets of strands, one a reflection of the other. This resulted in a checkweave with a rhomboid pattern. How could I make a check weave pattern with a square pattern? I made a second template with a 90 degree turn rather than a reflection. It looked promising but I realised that the templates would need to be altered as the strand widths no longer match and two templates could not be place directly over each other without some addition cutting to the slits. Work in progress!

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Here's the failed template for the (7,3) skew cylinder. I had to remove the plain section at the bottom to be able to weave the strands.

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Experiment with folding template for cylinder from A4 sheet (michael)

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Experiment with folding template for cylinder from A4 sheet (michael)

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The Dome that turned into a cone (Ricardo)

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The Dome that turned into a cone (Ricardo)

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I made a template that was the same as the ones we had for the cone but with gaps between the strips anticipating that it would produce a dome, that is, that the closing of the gaps during its weaving would generate positive curvature. However, as you can see in the photos this was the dome that wasn't. I think that this has happened because all the curvature went into the edge of the upper little cone and the beginning of the strips. The second photo shows that this edge is all crooked to let the rest be a familiar and relaxed cone. Good experiment, for me. What other ideas I can try to follow this one up?

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Looks somewhat like the Gherkin in London ...

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As with Ricardo's 'Dome', the conical nose seems to impose it's conical 'flatness', thereby distorting the start of the weave (though less exaggerated compared to Ricardo's cone-dome). Though it may just be my poor cutting and weaving skills too! :-)

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Completed checkweave cylinder with a (7,3) skew. The slotting together of the opposing strands has been resolved cutting each strand to an individual length to match the underlying strand.

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Template showing stepped cutting edge for strands. Each strand is cut down to the dark line.

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View from the inside!

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It took a while to solve the weaving of a twill pattern, but got there eventually. I had to draw it out in 2D, then draw the skew before copying it onto the surface of the cylinder.

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Mix of materials - A4 paper strips, bag handles and some cord/ribbon from a Forces in Translation workshop?

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Two strands worked as a cube and the corresponding braid. Cube faces marked the the braid.

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Cube to cuboid with corresponding three strand braid

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Cube to cuboid with corresponding three strand braid

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When attempting to weave a larger cube I discovered that two  opposing faces resulted in a hole, also that the cube had become a cuboid. The corners are created when the outside strand is looped under or over. In the braid the corresponds with the folding on the edge of the braid. So whilst the braid becomes wider the length is always one strand as that is the point the fold or turn occurs.